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Sunlight’s Scout is a promising new tool
By Greg Marx Jun 15, 2012 at 12:43 PM
The busy folks at Sunlight Labs recently unveiled a nifty new feature that should be useful for advocates, policy wonks,... More
Another case of the racy emails
By Erika Fry Jun 14, 2012 at 10:29 AM
Earlier this week, I wrote about media coverage surrounding the “racy emails” that led to Des Moines, IA, school superintendent... More
Watch: Swing States Project staffer on coverage of gaffes, changes at GOOD, and Mitt’s Mormonism
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 14, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Earlier this week, Anna Clark, Michigan correspondent for CJR’s Swing States Project, appeared on bloggingheads.tv’s The Posner Show. Below, watch... More
Keeping journalism nonprofits vital
By Kira Goldenberg Jun 14, 2012 at 06:44 AM
While it didn't find one magic solution, a new study did show that nonprofit media are most likely to remain... More
Heresy on the bayou (updated)
By Brent Cunningham Jun 13, 2012 at 10:43 AM
More than the news that it would no longer publish every day; more than the rumor that those left in... More
Listen: CJR staffer on Politico and media criticism
By Kira Goldenberg Jun 12, 2012 at 04:59 PM
In his very first piece for CJR last week, intern Peter Sterne criticized Politico’s story that alleged a pro-Obama bias... More
Learning from others’ Kickstarter mistakes
By Alysia Santo Jun 12, 2012 at 03:00 PM
Journalism professionals, professors, and students are taking their reporting proposals to Kickstarter, and for the past few months I’ve rounded... More
Dumb and dumber
By Michael Massing Jun 12, 2012 at 02:50 PM
In April, CNN recorded its lowest monthly ratings in more than 10 years. In May, it recorded its lowest monthly... More
Don’t think pink
By Erika Fry Jun 12, 2012 at 01:37 PM
Hey journalists, how do you navigate the “pink ghetto”? For starters, try changing the language used to describe topics traditionally... More
Politico goes for ‘fair and balanced’
By Peter Sterne Jun 6, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Last week, Politico rocked the insidery world of political journalism with an article, written by executive editor Jim VandeHei and... More
How David Simon is wrong about paywalls
By Howard Owens Jun 5, 2012 at 11:36 AM
David Simon is a talented writer and storyteller, but is he qualified to give advice to publishers about how to... More
When watchdog meets lapdog
By Michael Massing Jun 4, 2012 at 02:50 PM
The New York Times's report last week on the Obama administration's secret "kill list" of Al Qaeda suspects and the... More
In Thailand, moderate comments or go to jail
By Erika Fry Jun 4, 2012 at 11:00 AM
For 20 days in the 2010, a user comment, later deemed by Thai officials as offensive to the king, was... More
Election 2012 coverage: another gender gap
By Erika Fry May 31, 2012 at 04:04 PM
Earlier this week, I wrote about the persisting gender gap in opinion media. Women’s voices were especially lacking in legacy... More
Class, warfare
By Daniel Luzer May 31, 2012 at 03:44 PM
Paul Fussell, historian and cultural critic, died last week at 88. With his death, America lost a steady voice for... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
